'Sonic the Hedgehog' could earn as much as $75 million over the Fri-Mon President's Day weekend.
can score accordingly. And, yes, it was clearly worth the time and money that was spent to redo the animation of its title character. There was clearly an interest in amovie starring a cartoon character who actually looked like the video game character. If anything, the delay turned out to be a blessing.in mid-December. Its original mid-November opening would have put it alongside, although only one of those broke big.
The film plays out like an old-school kid flick, complete with an arbitrary road trip and most of its location work taking place in a small town while making sure that James Marsden’s aww-shucks hero and Jim Carrey’s over-the-top baddie are at least as entertaining as our title character. It’s not quite the glorious triumph of, but it made sure that it offered a halfway decent movie with entertainment value for those not obsessed with the specific IP.
earned $5.38 million on Friday for a likely $12.7 million Fri-Sun/$14.3 million Fri-Mon debut weekend. The critically-savaged had a fun idea, taking an old fantasy TV show and warping it into a horror movie, but the movie takes forever to get into gear and has 4,000 false endings. Alas, the film earned a C- from CinemaScore, so it’s not long for this world.
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